"was the daughter of Longstone lighthouse-keeper (one of the islands' lighthouses), William Darling, and on 7 September 1838, at the age of 22 years, she and her father rescued nine people from the wreck of the 'Forfarshire' in a strong gale and thick fog, the vessel having run aground on Harcar Rock. The story of the rescue attracted extraordinary attention throughout Britain and made Grace Darling a heroine who has gone down in British folklore. The islands have no permanent population, the only residents being National Trust Assistant Rangers during part of the year: they live in the old pele"
"Grace Darling Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ""Forfarshire"" in 1838. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of her crew were saved. Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at her grandfather's cottage in Bamburgh in Northumberland. She was the seventh of nine children (four brothers and four sisters) born to William and Thomasin Darling, and when only a few weeks old she was taken to"
"commemorated her 175th birthday. The same day, the United States Coast Guard Northeast division posted a tweet honoring her birthday; it was later re-tweeted by the US Coast Guard main handle. In 2018, Ida Lewis became the first woman to have a road named after her at Arlington National Cemetery; the road is called Lewis Drive. Ida Lewis Idawalley Zorada Lewis-Wilson (""née"" Lewis) (February 25, 1842 – October 24, 1911) was an American lighthouse keeper noted for her heroism in rescuing people from the seas. Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the second oldest of four children of"
"Ida Lewis Idawalley Zorada Lewis-Wilson (""née"" Lewis) (February 25, 1842 – October 24, 1911) was an American lighthouse keeper noted for her heroism in rescuing people from the seas. Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the second oldest of four children of Captain Hosea Lewis of the Revenue-Marine. Her father was transferred to the Lighthouse Service and appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light on Lime Rock in Newport in 1854, taking his family to live on the rock in 1857. After the family had been at Lime Rock for less than four months, he had a stroke and"
"younger brother, she was able to haul the two men into her boat and bring them to the lighthouse. One of them later gave a gold watch to Lewis, and for her heroism she became the first woman to receive a gold Congressional medal for lifesaving. The soldiers at Fort Adams showed their appreciation by collecting $218 for her. Because of her many rescues, Lewis became the best-known lighthouse keeper of her day. During her 54 years on Lime Rock she is credited with saving 18 lives, although unofficial reports suggest the number may have been as high as 25."
"18 people rescued by Ida Lewis. In 1995, the United States Coast Guard named the first of a new class of buoy tenders for Ida Lewis. The USCGC ""Ida Lewis"" (WLM-551), the lead ship of the 175' Keeper class, is currently stationed at Middletown, Rhode Island. The folk song ""Lighthouse Keeper"" by Neptune's Car was inspired by the experiences of women lighthouse tenders including Lewis, Katherine Walker, and Abbie Burgess. Ida Lewis' Gold Lifesaving Medal, along with two other medals awarded to her and other artifacts, are in the collections of the Newport Historical Society. In 2017, a Google Doodle"
"appointment as keeper in 1879, largely through the efforts of an admirer, General Ambrose Everett Burnside, a Civil War hero who became a Rhode Island governor and United States senator. With a salary of $750 per year, Lewis was for a time the highest-paid lighthouse keeper in the nation. The extra pay was given ""in consideration of the remarkable services of Mrs. Wilson in the saving of lives"". Lewis made her first rescue in 1854, coming to the assistance of four men whose boat had capsized. She was 12 years old. Her most famous rescue occurred on March 29, 1869."
"she may have suffered from a cleft lip. He is the only biographer to put forward this theory, which has been strongly disputed. Grace Darling Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ""Forfarshire"" in 1838. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of her crew were saved. Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at her grandfather's cottage in Bamburgh in Northumberland. She was the seventh of nine"
"first lighthouse stood tall. In 1827, a rotating light was installed to differentiate it from the Stonington Harbor Light in Connecticut. Erosion forced it to close in 1855 and move farther away from the bluff edge. The next lighthouse opened in 1856 and remains as the present structure, standing tall. The steamer ""Metis"" crashed off Watch Hill in 1872, killing 130 people. In 1873, lighthouse keeper Captain Jared Starr Crandall was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for rescue operations involving the ""Metis"". In 1879, Capt. Crandall's widow Sally Ann (Gavitt) Crandall became the first woman lighthouse keeper there. A United"
"Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright Jessie Ace (1860–1936) and Margaret Wright (née Ace; 1854–1933) are known for their rescue of crewmen, from the Mumbles lifeboat, which had gone to assist a wrecked German barque during an 1883 storm at Mumbles Head, Wales. Ace and Wright were daughters of the Mumbles Lighthouse keeper Abraham Ace. On 27 January 1883, an 885-ton German barque named ""Admiral Prinz Adalbert"" of Danzig was caught in a storm in Mumbles Head and wrecked just below the lighthouse. The Mumbles lifeboat came to rescue the crew. When the Mumbles lifeboat, a wooden sailboat named the ""Wolverhampton"","
"that night, leaving four widows and fourteen orphaned children. The same storm also wrecked two other ships (""Agnes Jack"" and ""James Grey"") on the Gower Peninsula, claiming 44 lives. While the Royal National Lifeboat Institution awarded a silver medal and £50 to the coxswain who had aided the women in the rescue, and issued a commendation on vellum to Hutchings, it did not officially recognize the sisters' role. The sisters did receive gold brooches from Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the Empress of Germany, for caring for the barque's crew. The women gained international fame when they were featured on the front"
"Monument to Grace Darling The Monument to Grace Darling, in the churchyard of St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland is a Victorian Gothic memorial. The monument was designed by Anthony Salvin, with later renovations by Frederick Wilson, C. R. Smith and W. S. Hicks. Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815, the daughter of the lighthouseman at Longstone Lighthouse. In 1838, Darling became a national heroine when she and her father rescued nine people from the wreck of the ""SS Forfarshire"", a ship that had run aground off Big Harcar, an island off the Northumbrian coast. Darling died, aged 26,"
"highly visible, fixed white light. In 1880, the original 1821 stone keeper's-house (adjacent to the lighthouse) was replaced with the present large wood-frame Keeper's House. [ Note: these structures should not be confused with the (so-called) ""Keepers' House""/Wolcott House, which is approx. distant from the lighthouse.] A lifesaving station was built one-half mile (800 m) west of the lighthouse in 1876. Lucien Clemons, who with his two brothers saved two sailors from a shipwreck off the peninsula on May 1, 1875, was named the first commander. The turn of the century ushered in new technology as well as structural changes"
"Ingeborg Norell Ingeborg Norell (born 1727), was the first Finnish female to have received an official decoration and to have been the subject of a commemorative plaque. She was commemorated in recognition for her act by saving a life in Tenala in 1780. Norell was likely the daughter of the saddle maker Hans Sten Borg, married in 1764 to the jeweler Carl Gustaf Norell (1738-1782), and had three children. In April 1780, a two-year-old girl was rescued from the water, but was in an lifeless state and presumed drowned. Norell, who was interested in medicine and had studied the publications"
"the portside paddlebox casing. Nine other passengers and crew had managed to float off a lifeboat from the stern section before it too sank, and were picked up in the night by a passing Montrose sloop and brought into South Shields that same night. As news of her role in the rescue reached the public, her combination of bravery and simple virtue set her out as exemplary, and led to an uneasy role as the nation's heroine. Grace and her father were awarded the Silver Medal for bravery by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck,"
"The lighthouse caught fire on December 31, 1863, during a ferocious storm in which the temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees. The lighthouse keeper, Charles Drake, his wife and daughter were forced to take refuge in an outhouse, wrapped in a pair of comforters, after an unsuccessful attempt to quench the fire with buckets of lake water. Drake's son Pitt, attending a party at Put-in-Bay, was dissuaded from braving the storm; the next day he went with a rescue party to the island to find nothing standing but the outhouse. Though suffering from exposure, the three refugees were found alive."
"Abbie Burgess Abbie Burgess Grant (1839–1892) was an American lighthouse keeper known for her bravery in tending the Matinicus Rock Light in Maine during a raging winter storm in 1856. She did so for nearly a month while her father, the head keeper, was away from the island. Her heroic actions attracted much attention and she was soon a popular heroine. Abbie Burgess was the fourth of nine children of Samuel and Thankful (Phinney) Burgess, who moved with his invalid wife, a son, and several daughters to Matinicus Rock in 1853 to become its lighthouse tender. Although only 15, she"
"Roberta Boyd Roberta Beatrice ""Bertha"" Boyd (16 June 1862 – 10 January 1944), sometimes listed as Roberta Grace, was a Canadian lighthouse keeper and heroine known as the 'Grace Darling of the St. Croix'. Roberta was born on 16 June 1862 to John and Kate Boyd. Her father, John Boyd, was the keeper of the Spruce Point Light near St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Roberta and her mother would tend the light when her father was away. On 8 October 1882, Boyd saved two men whose sailing boat had overturned in the river, and rowed them back to shore. For this"
"Kathleen Moore Kathleen Moore (born ; died 1899), also known as Catherine Moore, Kathleen A. Moore, Kathleen Andre Moore, Kate Moore, and Catherine A. Moore, was a lighthouse keeper. She was employed by the United States Lighthouse Service, which was a precursor agency to the United States Coast Guard. Moore served at the Black Rock Harbor Light on Fayerweather Island in Long Island Sound for over half a century, beginning when she helped her father as a twelve-year-old. She is credited with saving 21 lives. According to Moore: ""Sometimes there were more than two hundred sailing vessels at night, and"
"heavy fire to get water for comrades in rifle pits. Notes References Marcus Hanna (lighthouse keeper) Marcus Aurelius Hanna (November 3, 1842 – December 21, 1921) was an American lighthouse keeper famous for his heroism. He is the only person in history to have received both the Medal of Honor and the Gold Lifesaving Medal. He is not to be confused with political boss Marcus ""Mark"" Hanna (1837-1904). Hanna was born in Bristol, Maine, the son of the keeper of the Franklin Island Light. He spent his early years at the station before going off to sea at the age"
"only away from the lighthouse on two nights. During her faithful vigil only one shipwreck of consequence was recorded, the cause of which was carelessness on the part of the skipper who allowed his vessel to drift on the rocks. Julia Williams was a descendant of a Maine family and she had come to California with her husband during the gold rush era. She raised three boys and two girls at the lighthouse. In 1905, her vigil finally ended when she fell from a couch and broke her hip. She was 81 years old when she was relieved by another"
"awarded for rescues that took place in 1826 and 1829. The most famous rescue by the Ballycotton lifeboat took place in 1936. A Gold Medal was awarded to Coxswain Patrick Sliney, Silver Medals to Second Coxswain John Lane Walsh and Motor Mechanic Thomas Sliney, and Bronze Medals to Crew Members Michael Coffey Walsh, John Shea Sliney, William Sliney and Thomas Walsh for the service on 11 February when the Daunt Rock lightship broke away from her moorings. The seas were so mountainous that spray was flying over the lantern of the lighthouse 196 ft high. The lifeboat, was away from"
"Light. The light weathered the hurricane of 1938 fairly well, albeit with serious flood damage to the first floor. The keeper's wife, Annie Whitford, was washed away three times, but managed not only to survive but to keep the light going through the storm. On a less perilous note, two of her daughters were married at the light, the second to the son of the keeper of the Warwick Light. In 1956 the light was converted to electricity and automated. In 1968 widening of the shipping channel led the harbor authority to order the removal of the light, and it"
"Longstone Lighthouse Longstone Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse lighthouse located on Longstone Rock in the outer group of the Farne Islands off the Northumberland Coast, England. Completed in 1826, it was originally called the Outer Farne Lighthouse, and complemented the earlier Inner Farne Lighthouse. The lighthouse is best known for the 1838 wreck of the ""Forfarshire"" and the role of Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, in rescuing survivors. Longstone Lighthouse was built and designed by Joseph Nelson in 1826, and was originally called the Outer Farne lighthouse. The site had a long history of need for a"
"Katherine Walker Katherine Walker (""née"" Katharina Görtler; November 25, 1848 – February 5, 1931) was a German-American lighthouse keeper. Walker tended the Robbins Reef Light in New York Harbor for more than 30 years after the death of her husband, Captain John Walker, who had been appointed keeper of the light in 1885. Katherine Walker was appointed the official keeper of the light by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890, four years after her husband's death. During her tenure she rescued 50 or more sailors from shipwrecks. Walker was born in Rumbach, Germany, to Friedrich and Susanna Görtler. She married Joseph"
"US Government"" William Babb William Babb was a Canadian captain of the Goderich, Ontario Lifeboat Station's Life-Saving Brigade and local hotel proprietor. He was awarded a Gold Lifesaving Medal for the 1885 rescue of the American schooner ""A.C. Maxwell"". Captain William Babb earned a Gold Lifesaving Medal on February 11, 1888 for the rescue of six men and a woman from the schooner ""A. C. Maxwell"" that had wrecked on the shoals two miles south of Goderich in late 1885. A description of the rescue from the ""Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-saving Service"", published in"
"the 5th Lighthouse District. She was based out of Baltimore and later Portsmouth for service as an inspection tender. She also serviced aids to navigation in the Chesapeake Bay. In April 1889, President Benjamin Harrison, his family, Secretary of State Blaine and Secretary of the Treasury Windom rode the ""Holly"" down the Potomac River and back. In April 1893, on her way down the Potomac River, she rescued Congressman Reyburn when his yacht, the ""Gretchen"", was found burning off Marshall Hall, Maryland. Less than a week later, with Commodore Fighting Bob Evans aboard, ""Holly"" and her crew rescued 28 African"
"William Babb William Babb was a Canadian captain of the Goderich, Ontario Lifeboat Station's Life-Saving Brigade and local hotel proprietor. He was awarded a Gold Lifesaving Medal for the 1885 rescue of the American schooner ""A.C. Maxwell"". Captain William Babb earned a Gold Lifesaving Medal on February 11, 1888 for the rescue of six men and a woman from the schooner ""A. C. Maxwell"" that had wrecked on the shoals two miles south of Goderich in late 1885. A description of the rescue from the ""Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-saving Service"", published in 1889: ""The"
"in 1834, monetary awards and a Silver Medal was awarded for saving twelve crew from the ""Konigberg"". A third Silver Medal was awarded in November, 1838 to William Jennings who swam to the brig ""Belissima"", carrying a line, and saving thirteen men. Rescuing the crew of the ""Fletan"" resulted in a fourth Silver Medal in February 1851. A lifeboat house was erected in 1866 and the first lifeboat, ""Oxfordshire"" was paraded through the streets on 28 December 1866 and named by Mrs W H Carew. The RNLI withdrew services from Looe in 1930 on the grounds that the lifeboats of"
"woman that night. Blake and Mary Ann McDonnell had five children: Catherine, Richard, Clara, Mary and Hannah. The first three were born in the lighthouse. A USCG coastal buoy tender WLM-563 based in Everett, Washington is named after him. The USCGC Henry Blake (WLM-563) honors his commitment to mariner safety in its name and motto, ""The Keeper of Tradition."" Henry Blake (lighthouse keeper) William Henry Blake (1837–1871) was the first New Dungeness Lighthouse keeper. Blake began his term after the New Dungeness Lighthouse was first lighted on December 14, 1858. Blake overcame the loneliness and dreariness associated with the profession"
"Anna Maria Engsten Anna Maria Jansdotter Engsten (1762 – fl. 1790) was by King Gustav III of Sweden awarded with a medal in silver for ""Valour in Battle at Sea"" for her acts during the Russo-Swedish war of 1788–1790. Engsten was a maid to the master mariner of the Swedish fleet, G.A. Leijonancker. During the retreat from Viborg and Björkösund, she was evacuated with five sailors in a boat filled with food supplies and the captain's belongings. They were shot at by the Russian fleet, which killed a sheep and caused a leak. The sailors abandoned the boat, but she"
"come so far up on the shore that her crew was able to get off on their own. The brigantine ""Alice"" was abandoned at sea, but late on the 26th the vessel had come ashore. Two salvors had gone aboard and needed to be rescued when their dory was swept away. Captain James and his crew took the would-be salvors off the wrecked ""Alice"". The ""Alice"" was the last rescue of the Hurricane of 1888. For his work at the scene of six wrecks during a two-day period and rescuing 29 people, Joshua James was awarded gold medals by both"
"destroy key engine components, to prevent ""Rangitane"" being taken as a prize. Despite the surrender, shelling continued and the furious Upton ordered full speed and return fire from the ship's guns, but this was prevented by destruction of telephones. The German shelling ceased and Upton gave the order to abandon ship. Sixteen people, eight passengers and eight crew, died as a result of the action, including those who died later of their injuries. Elizabeth Plumb, a 59-year-old stewardess, ship's cook William Francis and deck mechanic John Walker were awarded British Empire Medals for their selflessness in rescuing and caring for"